typist
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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
"It was because I was such a bad typist and was ruining so much of their expensive paper!" she joked.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
“I remember my days as a waiter, cleaner, typist, even my time on the unemployment line,” Ms. Streep said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
But I think it is wonderful how you have stuck with it and become such an excellent typist.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
But jobs that entailed doing more routine cognitive work such as typists and back-office bookkeepers—roles that had once promised a solid path to the middle class—were no longer so vital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
Aside from Pentagon typists, she realized, she was the first woman to read these documents.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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